Indoctrination 101.
MADISON, Wis. – “White Privilege” theorists aren’t content with just indoctrinating high school students. Their agenda is to start earlier than that. Four- and five-year-olds are much more impressionable than a skeptical teenager.
That’s why there was a session at the 2014 White Privilege Conference – held in Madison, Wisconsin in late March – titled, “Examining White Privilege and Building Foundations for Social Justice Thinking in the Elementary Classroom.” The session was led by two teachers, Rosemary Colt and Diana Reeves.
“But what we’re hoping to be able to convince you is possible is to take the (inaudible) sequences, which you are directed to be using, and to find within them opportunities to begin to insert social justice, anti-racist information for even little kids to understand,” Reeves said.
The teachers posted examples of their lessons for attendees to consider.
One lesson dealt with the U.S. Constitution.
“Does it work equally well for everyone?” the worksheet asks.
“No,” one child wrote, “because some people have different beliefs.”
“What does it mean to be privileged,” another question asks.
“If you are privileged you are white,” another child answered.